US 11,889,925 B2
Bed microclimate control in multiple zones
Kody Lee Karschnik, Plymouth, MN (US); Chee Nong Yang, Fridley, MN (US); Eric Stephen Rose, Piedmont, SC (US); and Matthew Griffith, Buffalo, MN (US)
Assigned to Sleep Number Corporation, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Sleep Number Corporation, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Dec. 31, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/139,353.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/957,103, filed on Jan. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0204711 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. A47C 21/04 (2006.01); A47C 27/14 (2006.01); G05B 19/4155 (2006.01); A47C 20/04 (2006.01); A47C 27/08 (2006.01); A47C 27/10 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); A47C 27/18 (2006.01); A47C 31/00 (2006.01); A47C 19/02 (2006.01); A47C 27/15 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 21/048 (2013.01) [A47C 19/027 (2013.01); A47C 20/041 (2013.01); A47C 21/044 (2013.01); A47C 27/081 (2013.01); A47C 27/082 (2013.01); A47C 27/083 (2013.01); A47C 27/10 (2013.01); A47C 27/14 (2013.01); A47C 27/18 (2013.01); A47C 31/001 (2013.01); A47C 31/005 (2013.01); A47C 31/007 (2013.01); G05B 19/0426 (2013.01); G05B 19/4155 (2013.01); A47C 20/04 (2013.01); A47C 27/15 (2013.01); A47C 31/008 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2614 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2638 (2013.01); G05B 2219/37371 (2013.01); G05B 2219/50333 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mattress system comprising:
a mattress having a mattress top surface that defines a first climate control zone and a second climate control zone;
one or more air controllers in fluid communication with the first and second climate control zones and operable to cause air to flow through the first and second climate control zones individually;
one or more processors; and
a computer-readable storage medium coupled to the one or more processors having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving a command to supply air to the first climate control zone that is heated; and
in response to receiving the command, commanding the one or more air controllers to cause heated air to flow through the first climate control zone and to cause ambient air to flow through the second climate control zone, wherein adjusting a flow rate of ambient air through the second climate control zone reduces an amount of heat transferred from the first climate control zone to the second climate control zone.